Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing proposed that Ning Fengzhi use the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s identical Martial Souls to combine many disciples’ Soul Power and temporarily evolve his Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. He left Ning Fengzhi considering the idea, supported by Zhou Qing’s example of the Golden Iron Triangle’s Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo explained that Soul Power drove Martial Soul growth, while breaking through past level 95 required enormous power and understanding.
• Zhou Qing suggested combining Soul Power cultivation and Martial Soul evolution by gathering multiple Soul Masters’ power into one Martial Soul.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s shared Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul could let its disciples fuse their Soul Power to help Ning Fengzhi’s Martial Soul evolve into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Zhou Qing cited Yu Xiaogang and the Golden Iron Triangle’s Three-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill as an example of combined Soul Power transforming a Martial Soul.

Zhou Qing explained how the Golden Iron Triangle’s combined soul power might have transformed Luo Sanpao and used that theory to offer Ning Fengzhi a possible path toward Martial Soul evolution and a cultivation breakthrough. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo recognized the potential in Zhou Qing’s proposal to study a temporarily evolved Martial Soul’s soul-power circulation.

• Zhou Qing argued that the Golden Iron Triangle’s Golden Holy Dragon transformation came from concentrated soul power rather than a conventional Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Zhou Qing proposed that Yu Xiaogang’s inefficient cultivation methods, which were suited to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon rather than Luo Sanpao, may have caused his Level 30 bottleneck.
• Ning Fengzhi realized that gathering several disciples’ soul power might temporarily evolve his Martial Soul, and Zhou Qing clarified that he had offered only theoretical guidance.
• Sword Douluo questioned whether such an evolution would last, and Zhou Qing suggested combining the transformation with meditation to learn a better cultivation method.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo understood that studying the temporarily evolved Martial Soul’s soul-power circulation could help Ning Fengzhi improve his cultivation and pursue permanent evolution.

Zhou Qing advised Ning Fengzhi on researching Soul Power fusion to strengthen the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received a Seven Treasure Token in return. He then asked Ning Fengzhi for something more practical, leaving his request unanswered.

• Zhou Qing suggested that Ning Fengzhi seek out Yu Xiaogang for research on combining Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed that Yu Xiaogang might have obtained secret teachings from Spirit City and gave Zhou Qing a Seven Treasure Token.
• Zhou Qing accepted the token, then asked Ning Fengzhi for a more practical reward for his advice.

Zhou Qing asked Ning Fengzhi to let him enter the Continental Elite Tournament at age nine so he could assess the continent’s powers and begin organizing people around his vision. He explained that he wanted ordinary people to live with dignity and change their fate, while Ning Fengzhi interpreted his words as a plan to establish an emperor ruling all Douluo Continent.

• Zhou Qing asked Ning Fengzhi for permission to participate in the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament three years later, and Ning Fengzhi questioned whether nine was too young.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that he had limited time to prepare for future enemies and rejected gathering the people’s faith as a path to becoming a god.
• Zhou Qing resolved to investigate hostile powers, spread his ideas, gather capable allies, and build an armed force so his cause could survive even if he fell.
• Zhou Qing told Ning Fengzhi that corruption among Heaven Dou and Star Luo officials had convinced him to help ordinary people change their fate.
• Zhou Qing declared that he wanted to establish a heart for heaven and earth and a destiny for the people, while Ning Fengzhi took the words to mean founding an enduring empire.

Zhou Qing explained his goal of ending noble privilege, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to offer discreet support while protecting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Ning Fengzhi then explained how Intermediate Academies could qualify for the Continental Elite Tournament.

• Zhou Qing told Ning Fengzhi he wanted to erase the nobility’s privileged status, and Ning Fengzhi feared the changes he intended to make.
• Ning Fengzhi decided he could support Zhou Qing privately as a merchant while keeping the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect publicly unaffiliated.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Intermediate Academies were allowed to register for the tournament despite its name.
• Ning Fengzhi said Intermediate Academies had to travel to Heaven Dou City and win recognition from an Advanced Academy in a challenge witnessed by the Martial Soul Hall and Royal Academy.

Zhou Qing discussed Nuoding Academy’s prospects and his goal of entering the Continental Elite Tournament with Ning Fengzhi, then left to spend time with Ning Rongrong. The chapter ended with the two sharing shaved ice, a new treat Zhou Qing made from crushed ice, fruit juice, and syrup.

• Zhou Qing learned from Ning Fengzhi that Nuoding Academy would need to become an intermediate academy within three years for him to pursue the tournament, and he confidently accepted the challenge.
• Zhou Qing paid for the damage at Welcome Spring Inn, while Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo discussed his ideals and recalled their own youthful beliefs about equality.
• Ning Rongrong caught up with Zhou Qing, who admitted that he had knocked her unconscious and then invited her to dessert.
• Zhou Qing made shaved ice for himself and Ning Rongrong at a cold-drink stall, and Ning Rongrong enjoyed the new treat.

Zhou Qing and his companions investigated Falling Star City while discussing his newly awakened power and their plans to enter the Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament. Their completed city map revealed a strange pattern that Zhou Qing and Tang San interpreted in different ways.

• Ning Rongrong praised Zhou Qing’s cold drink, then he stopped her from insulting Dales as the city lord passed through the street and learned that people imprisoned for defying him never returned.
• Zhou Qing gathered his companions’ records and sketches of Falling Star City, explained what had happened at Welcome Spring Inn, and described the power that had erupted when his Qi and Blood, Soul Power, spirit, and faith resonated.
• Xiao Wu declared that she would participate in the tournament after Nuoding Academy became an intermediate academy, while privately planning to cultivate and conceal her soul beast aura.
• Zhou Qing finished combining the city’s maps and noticed that its roads formed strange patterns; he identified a Soul Ring, while Tang San identified a Soul Tool Core Formation.

Zhou Qing and Tang San discovered that Falling Star City's roads formed a Soul Ring-like Soul Tool Core Formation that might have been designed by a hidden Fallen One. Their experiment with Tang San's Wind Leaf Darts confirmed Zhou Qing's theory that Soul Guiding Inscriptions could draw on Heaven and Earth Energy even without Soul Power.

• Zhou Qing and Tang San noticed that Falling Star City's road layout formed a sinister pattern resembling a Soul Ring enclosing a Soul Tool Core Formation.
• Zhou Qing reasoned that Dales could not have designed it and suspected someone had secretly guided the city's planning over many years.
• You Hui said the roads had been planned about twenty years earlier and that several previous City Lords had reportedly died of illness.
• Zhou Qing explained that Soul Guiding Inscriptions might draw on Heaven and Earth Energy, just as a Paper Airplane used air to fly.
• Tang San compared an engraved Wind Leaf Dart with a blank one and found that the engraved dart flew much farther when thrown without Soul Power.

Tang San and Zhou Qing realized that Falling Star City’s layout might function as a vast Soul Tool Core Formation, with wind and airflow activating its effects. They named the resulting interaction between moving qi and stable fields an Aura Field.

• Tang San feared that Falling Star City’s Soul Tool Core Formation might one day endanger its residents, but Zhou Qing argued that it needed an external force to activate.
• Zhou Qing explained that airflow could move a Soul Tool Core Formation built into the city’s buildings and roads, and Tang San connected the idea to Feng Shui.
• Zhou Qing described how qi and stable fields combined to form an Aura Field, then asked Tang San for a term to describe the phenomenon.
• Tang San suggested qi, and Zhou Qing settled on the name Aura Field.

Zhou Qing explained how Falling Star City might function as a city-scale Soul Tool Core Formation, using wind and Heaven and Earth Energy to create an Aura Field. He and Tang San concluded that the fixed formation lacked adaptability and could be difficult to activate, but Zhou Qing urged an investigation and hinted that he had another idea.

• Ning Rongrong asked Zhou Qing to explain the discussion, and he described qi, fields, and their possible relationship to Soul Tool Core Formations.
• Zhou Qing proposed that Falling Star City's buildings and roads formed a fixed structure that wind could use to circulate Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Zhou Qing explained that activating the formation would require either a powerful Titled Douluo or an extremely strong gale, which could also damage the city.
• Tang San noted that wind direction would affect the formation, and Zhou Qing agreed that its fixed design made it lack adaptability.
• Tang San recognized the explanation as resembling Feng Shui Formations from his previous life, while Zhou Qing called for a personal investigation and mentioned another idea.

Zhou Qing explained how Soul Power could harmonize qi and field, then led Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Romantina to investigate the formation beneath Falling Star City's streets. They uncovered a deep space below the bluestone road and began digging farther down.

• Zhou Qing explained that suitable underground materials and nodes might let Falling Star City's Soul Tool Core Formation operate efficiently, and compared Soul Master cultivation to regulating qi and field with Soul Power.
• Zhou Qing suggested that Tang San might someday build a Spirit Gathering Array to gather Heaven and Earth Energy for the Tang Sect.
• Tang San used his Swift Wind Right Palm Bone to grow Blue Silver Grass through a seam, lifting and cracking a bluestone brick.
• Tang San reflected on Blue Silver Grass's strength and formed new ideas about balancing softness and strength in his cultivation.
• Zhou Qing and Tang San removed the broken brick and cleared a pit nearly two meters wide before the group began digging downward.

Zhou Qing and the others discovered Soul Power-conducting gravel buried beneath Falling Star City's roads, revealing a hidden formation tied to a plan spanning generations. They suspected the Soul Ancestor they were hunting was connected to the scheme, and they left the gravel concealed while preparing to learn more from Ning Rongrong.

• Zhou Qing found strange gravel beneath a road and confirmed that it conducted Soul Power with almost no loss.
• Romantina proposed destroying the formation, but Zhou Qing warned that its scale was unknown and that their target might sense Spiritual Power.
• Zhou Qing theorized that generations of Soul Masters had used Falling Star City's city lords to build the formation over two hundred years, and the group covered their excavation before dawn.
• Ning Rongrong joined Zhou Qing, Romantina, Xiao Wu, You Hui, and Tang San for Broadcast Gymnastics, then shared breakfast with them.
• Tang San promised Wang Shi that he would examine her husband’s broken bones and help take the family back to Holy Soul Village after their business was finished.

Zhou Qing recognized that Soul Sand’s ability to conduct Soul Power could enable new technology, while Tang San explained how he had adapted a Soul Guiding Inscription for the Wind Leaf Dart. Ning Rongrong asked about Tang San’s other offensive Soul Tools, but he refused to sell them.

• Zhou Qing showed Ning Rongrong the black grains, and she identified them as Soul Sand produced when Soul Crystals were refined.
• Ning Rongrong explained that Soul Sand conducted Soul Power exceptionally well but scattered without it and was considered useless for making Soul Tools.
• Zhou Qing realized Soul Sand could form safe Soul Power-conducting channels and could transform Soul Tool technology.
• Tang San explained that someone had used Soul Sand to build a Soul Tool Core Formation beneath Falling Star City, and Ning Rongrong asked if his Wind Leaf Dart contained a complete offensive formation.
• Tang San showed Ning Rongrong the Wind Leaf Dart and explained that he had copied an inscription from a Soul Tool Fan blade at Zhou Qing’s suggestion.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether Tang San had developed other offensive Soul Tools, and he admitted he had but refused to sell them.

Zhou Qing and the others connected the Soul Tool Core Formation in Falling Star City to the City Lord's Mansion and learned that You Hui's parents may have died because they knew too much about a Soul Ancestor's inherited role advising the city's rulers. They planned to use You Hui's status as a Baron to distract Dales while they investigated the mansion's secret room.

• Tang San asked Zhou Qing about their next objective, and Zhou Qing cautioned against accusing Dales without stronger evidence.
• Zhou Qing learned Ning Rongrong had kept their map of Falling Star City's buildings and roads secret from Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo.
• You Hui revealed that a Soul Ancestor and his descendants had advised Falling Star City's rulers for generations, and that her parents had encountered Fallen Ones before their deaths.
• Xiao Wu and Romantina comforted You Hui, though their attempts to embrace her left her embarrassed and short of breath.
• Zhou Qing asked You Hui to visit Dales at the City Lord's Mansion and keep him occupied while the others investigated the study and its suspected secret room.

Zhou Qing assigned You Hui and Romantina to visit Dales and investigate the clues surrounding the City Lord's Mansion. He explained his theory about conspiracies and began addressing how the plot behind Falling Star City could have lasted for more than two hundred years.

• Zhou Qing sent You Hui to visit Dales and told Romantina to accompany her, while the group joked about their relationship.
• Zhou Qing gave Romantina his Gray Pouch to store her Phoenix Wutong Staff and instructed You Hui to let Romantina handle the conversation with Dales.
• Zhou Qing told Romantina to answer Dales truthfully and explained that uncovering proof would require startling the conspirators.
• Tang San questioned how the plot behind Falling Star City could have endured for over two hundred years despite Zhou Qing's rules about conspiracies.
• Zhou Qing said the conspiracy's knowledge was likely limited to people with Martial Souls passed down through a single bloodline.

Zhou Qing explained how a hidden scheme had been passed down through Falling Star City’s successive city lords under the guise of bringing order, and laid out a plan to investigate and disrupt the Soul Tool Core Formation. The group prepared to exploit the city’s residents’ desire for treasure, hoping to help them avert the calamity beneath their city.

• Tang San understood that the masterminds had concealed their long-term plot beneath the public goal of making Falling Star City more orderly.
• Zhou Qing told Romantina to confront Dales about the fugitive from the attack on Xiao Manor and to stall him or pressure him into joining a search.
• Zhou Qing assigned himself, Tang San, and Xiao Wu to investigate rooms behind the City Lord's Mansion.
• Zhou Qing asked Ning Rongrong to make the city's residents believe Soul Crystals were buried underground, prompting them to dig and damage the Soul Tool Core Formation.
• Ning Rongrong agreed that she could plant Soul Crystals if none were found, and Zhou Qing praised her for understanding the plan.

Ning Rongrong used her treasure-sensing talent to uncover Soul Crystals beneath a street in Falling Star City, then claimed that the city’s former lords had hidden caches under hundreds of locations. She left with the Soul Ancestors to search another spot, while the townspeople realized the buried crystals could make them rich.

• Zhou Qing explained to Xiao Wu why Dales held higher status than You Hui despite both being Barons, citing his authority, wealth, and connections.
• Ning Rongrong led her Soul Ancestor guards to a busy street and ordered them to dig where her Martial Soul sensed treasure.
• The guards uncovered hundreds of Soul Crystals, and Ning Rongrong kept only the purest one before telling them to rebury the rest and repair the road.
• The nearby pedestrians and merchants heard that each Soul Crystal was worth up to ten Gold Soul Coins and watched Ning Rongrong with interest.
• Ning Rongrong announced that Soul Crystals were buried at hundreds of locations beneath Falling Star City’s roads and set off to find another cache.

News that Soul Crystals and Soul Sand lay beneath Falling Star City's roads stirred its residents into unrest, while Ning Fengzhi considered why the materials had been buried there. He dismissed the idea that Zhou Qing had manipulated Ning Rongrong, but the reason for the buried Soul Crystals remained unclear.

• Rumors about buried Soul Crystals spread through Falling Star City, growing into claims of vast hidden gold and prompting residents to consider digging up the roads.
• A Soul King reported the unrest to Ning Fengzhi, but Ning Fengzhi did not summon Ning Rongrong or punish her.
• Sword Douluo worried that Ning Rongrong had caused unrest across the city and accused Zhou Qing of using her.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that Rongrong had acted of her own accord, having inherited his ability to guide people through their own nature.
• Ning Fengzhi noted that the roads contained Soul Sand as well as Soul Crystals, and questioned why the crystals still held Soul Power.

Ning Rongrong’s group marked the buried Soul Crystals while Dales learned of the disturbance in Falling Star City. You Hui sought answers about her parents’ deaths, and Romantina questioned Dales about a Soul Ancestor believed to be hiding in the city, leaving him anxious and reluctant to go to Nuoding City.

• Ning Rongrong selected one Soul Crystal from each of the four marked roads and ordered the others buried again.
• Dales invited You Hui and Romantina to the City Lord's Mansion after hearing about the Soul Crystals and their connection to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• You Hui asked Dales about her parents’ deaths six years earlier, but he concealed that he had arranged their murder and blamed the case on Fallen Ones.
• Romantina explained that she was tracking a Soul Ancestor who had attacked Xiao Manor and might have fled to Falling Star City.
• Romantina proposed that Dales accompany her to Nuoding City to question a Soul Douluo, and Dales panicked at the prospect of facing the expert and leaving the city.

Xiao Wu, Tang San, and Zhou Qing infiltrated Dales’s study and discovered a hidden chamber, while Xiao Wu found a diary revealing that a Fallen One had secretly abducted villagers for experiments for years. The diary linked the culprit to Dales and their hunted Soul Ancestor, but ended with the revelation that the Fallen One’s first victims had come from Holy Soul Village and had a newborn infant.

• Dales promised Romantina support, ordered more city patrols, and recruited adventurers to help search for the Soul Ancestor.
• After Dales left, Tang San, Zhou Qing, and Xiao Wu entered the mansion’s study and opened a hidden passage behind the bookshelves.
• Xiao Wu found Hu Fangyuan’s diary, which recorded years of disappearances and experiments conducted by a Fallen One with a Spirit Devouring Worm Martial Soul.
• Xiao Wu connected the diary’s writer to the Soul Ancestor they were hunting and read that the writer had secretly gained control of a passage out of Falling Star City.
• The diary revealed that Dales knew Hu Fangyuan was a Fallen One and supplied him with victims and cultivation resources.
• Hu Fangyuan recorded that his first experimental subjects were a couple from Holy Soul Village with a newborn infant.